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Letters Patent No. 78,622, dated June 2, 1868.

IMPROVED MODI..l OF OONSTRUOTING LOOSE PRAIRIE-FENGES.

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TO ALL WHOMIT MAY CONERN:

Bc it linown that I, IZAAK VAN KERSEN, of Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo, and State of Michigan, havefinvented a new and improved Mode of Constructing' Loose Prairie-Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full and exact description offthe construction of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilieation, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view from the whole invention.

Figure@ is a. part from the fence. I

Figure 3 is the axle-tree, with wheels, 5to.; and

Figure 4 are two fastening-posts.

A A, fig. 1, are two lengths from a common loose fence, which rest on the aXle-treesB B, and wheels C C C, and braces D D. The lengths from this fence arefastened by loose eye-bolts, F F F F, which will moveby rising or falling from the ground, and are fastened in hooks, shown, g. 2, G G, and locked up with 'a wooden lock, H; and by 'i is shown the excavation in the fence for the axle-tree B, iig. 3, shown behind, With its braces D D and wheels C C.

By hitching two horses to the two-horse evener E, iig. I, which is fastened with two clevisesyL L, to theNd fence, it can be drawn by ten or twenty lengths together; And to fasten thesevfences to the ground on its place, drive the hook-posts K :lL-hg. 4, clos-e by the. fence, in the ground, with the iron hooks o o over the axletrees B B, and it is fastened to the ground.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Constructing a fence with wheels and axles permanently attached to one end of each panel, while the other 'end is connected by hooks and eyes, and the panels supported by braces D D, the whole constructed, arranged, and operated substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

I'ZAAK VAN KERSEN.

Witnesses ROLLIN- Woon, A. A. KRAPPEN. 

